In this ongoing class we will discuss and analyze short stories through a literary lens, as well as simply enjoying short stories that have proven to be some of the best in English Literature.

Class Structure:
5-10 minutes: Class welcome and discussion on the literary device we are studying for the week.
45-50 minutes: Instructor led class discussion.

Class Schedule (NOTE: Feel free to make requests, whether to study one of the following stories at a different date, or to do a story not listed below)

Week 1. 1/4/2024 “The Little Match Girl” by Hans Christian Andersen
Week 2. 1/11/2024 “A Contract of Ink and Skin” by Angela Liu
Week 3. 1/18/2024 “Sleeping” by Katharine Weber
Week 4. 1/25/2024 “The Last Night of the World” by Ray Bradbury
Week 5. 2/1/2024 "The Flowers" by Alice Walker
Week 6. 2/8/2024  "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Week 7. 2/15/2024  "A continuity of parks" by Julio Cortázar
Week 8. 2/29/2024 "One of these Days" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Week 9. 3/7/2024 "2BR02B" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Week 10. 3/14/2024 "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang
Week 11. 3/21/2024 "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros
Week 12. 3/28/2024 "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan
Week 13. 4/4/2024 "The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty
Week 14. 4/11/2024 "Examination Day" by Henry Slesar
Week 15. 4/18/2024 "NAMES/NOMBRES" by Julia Alvarez
Week 16. 4/25/2024 "Thank You, Ma'am" by Langston Hughes
Week 17. 5/2/2024 "The Stolen Party" by Liliana Heker
Week 18. 5/2/2024 "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
Week 19. 5/9/2024 "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
Week 20. 5/16/2024 " Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl
Week 21. 5/23/2024 "The Telltale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
Week 22. 5/30/2024: "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
Week 23. 6/6/2024 "The Wife's Story" by Ursula K. Leguin"
Week 24. 6/13/2024 NO CLASS
Week 25. 6/20/2024: "Lather and Nothing Else" by Hernando Tellez
Week 26. 6/27/2024: "Cat in the Rain" by Ernest Hemingway
Week 27. 7/4/2024 "The Lady or the Tiger" By Frank R. Stockton
Week 28. 7/11/2024: "Araby" by James Joyce
Week 30. 7/18/2024: "The landlady" by Roald Dahl
Week 31. 7/25/2024 "A Conversation from the Third Floor" by Mohamed El-Bisatie
Week 32. 8/1/2024 "Skylight Room" by O. Henry
Week 33. 8/8/2024 "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury
Week 34. 8/15/2024 "Snow" by Anne Beattie
Week 35. 8/22/2024 "The Masque of Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
Week 36. 8/29/2024 "The Umbrella Man" by Roald Dahl
Week 37. 9/5/2024 "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury
Week 38. 9/12/2024 "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
Week 39. 9/19/2024 "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allen Poe
Week 40. 9/26/2024 "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst
Week 41. 10/3/2024 "On the bridge" by Todd Strasser
Week 42. 10/10/2024 "Riddle" by Ogbewe Amadin
Week 43. 10/17/2024 "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Week 44. 10/24/2024 "A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolfe
Week 45. 10/31/2024 "Candle Cove" by Kris Straub
Week 46. 11/7/2024 "Roselily" by Alice Walker
Week 47. 11/14/2024 "The Censors" by Luis Valenzuela
Week 48. 11/21/2024 "The story of an hour" by Kate Chopin
Week 49. 11/28/2024 "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain
Week 50. 12/5/2024 "Powder" by Tobias Wolff
Week 51. 12/12/2024 "Last Long Night" by Lina Rather
Week 52. 12/19/2024 "Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog" by Kurt Vonnegut
Week 53. 12/26/2024 "At Christmas Time" by Anton Chekhov
Week 54. 1/2/2025 "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber
Week 55. 1/9/2025 "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O’Connor
Week 56. 1/16/2025 "Troll Bridge" by Terry Pratchett
Week 57. 1/23/2025 "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
Week 58. 1/30/2025 "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
Week 59. 2/6/2025 "Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan
Week 60. 2/13/2025 "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce